Category: College basketball

No7 Aggies beat up on Tar Heels 86-65 in dominant winNo11 Syracuse overcome partisan crowd to beat SpartansThe Nevada Wolf Pack just keep digging themselves out of deep holes. And now they’re on their way to Nevada’s first Sweet 16 since 2004.The seven…

The Retrievers’ stunning takedown of Virginia reminded us why March Madness endures as one of America’s best sporting traditionsThat whoosh you heard on Friday night was the sound of millions of brackets across America simultaneously bursting into flam…

No16 seeds had been 0-135 against No1s entering FridayDay two of the NCAA tournament – as it happenedSenior guard Jairus Lyles scored 28 points, and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County pulled off the most shocking upset in NCAA tournament histo…

The college game is mired in scandal and it may take pressure from superstars in the NBA to fix deep-rooted problemsNobody is stepping up to fix college sports, so if LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony truly believe the NCAA is corrupt they are…

Cleveland Cavaliers star chose to skip college for NBASays colleges benefit more from players from amateur systemAs college basketball finds itself mired in scandal, with allegations of illegal payments to student athletes flying around, one man who fa…

LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball sign one-year deals with Prienu VytautasLiAngelo, 19, withdrew from UCLA after suspension for shopliftingLaMelo, 16, left Chino Hills High in October to be home-schooledLiAngelo and LaMelo Ball, the teenage brothers of Los Ange…

US president attacks father of one of three UCLA players arrested for shoplifting in China, after he questioned Trump’s role in resolving the matterDays after claiming credit for ensuring that three UCLA college basketball players were released after b…

US president said he had helped release players accused of shopliftingTrump apparently incensed by comments from LaVar BallNot for the first time in his political career, Donald Trump has changed his mind. After announcing he had helped secure the rele…

Gamecocks decline invite to executive mansion to celebrate national titleTeam initially planned on going but hadn’t receive invite as of SeptemberSouth Carolina’s women’s basketball team, which captured their first national championship at the Women’s …

US president intervened to help college players detained in ChinaPlayers faced allegations of shoplifting from high-end mallAs LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday they were swamped by reporte…

President says he spoke to Chinese counterpart about matterUCLA players, including LiAngelo Ball, face allegations of shopliftingDonald Trump said on Tuesday he’s hopeful that three UCLA basketball players including LiAngelo Ball, the brother…

LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill to stay in Hangzhou, AP reportsUCLA trio have been accused of shoplifting from luxury store in team hotelPlayers could be Hangzhou for ‘a week or two’ while situation is resolvedThe UCLA basketball team is headi…

UCLA will play annual Pac-12 China in Shanghai against Georgia TechCoach says LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill will not featureThree UCLA basketball players have been accused of shoplifting in China.Coach Steve Alford has said he will sit the t…

By criminalizing violations in college sports, the US Department of Justice will make it so that it is not just the NCAA who runs the market but the state as well

A bombshell was dropped on the college basketball world this week as an FBI probe into the seedy underbelly of the sport has resulted in the arrest of 10 men, including four high-level assistant coaches under charges of “bribery conspiracy, solicitation of bribes, honest services fraud conspiracy, honest service fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and Travel Act conspiracy.”

That laundry list of charges is impressive, but for those with any experience in how the world of college sports really works, it should come as no surprise. Under the table cash contributions to entice players to come play college sports has been a reality of the game ever since its inception. It was true in the 1980s, when Southern Methodist University earned the NCAA’s death penalty because it failed to properly cover up its payments to 21 different athletes. It was true in the 1940s, when American University officials blew the whistle on postwar attempts to recruit players to college football squads with bribes. It was even true in the first decade of the 1900s, the earliest period of the organization that would become today’s NCAA, when McClure’s magazine broke the news that Ivy League schools were fielding teams of “phantom students,” and that Yale coach Walter Camp had a $100,000 slush fund from the school.

LaVar Ball, the outspoken father of highly rated NBA draft prospect Lonzo Ball, has offered a novel explanation for his son’s failure to win the national championship with the UCLA Bruins: because the team has too many “slow white guys”.

In a statement on Tuesday, the athletics body said its board of governors had reviewed moves to repeal the so-called “bathroom bill” and replace it with a compromise law. The new agreement, House Bill 142, though it repeals the bathroom bill, has angered LGBT and civil liberty groups because it prohibits future anti-discrimination ordinances by cities and councils. This means that cities will not be able to introduce any local laws to specifically protect transgender people.